5 Myths about America’s Nuclear Weapons Debunked By Phillip Coyle, Robert Gard, John Isaacs, & Greg Terryn The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced last week that it has decided to move its famed “Doomsday Clock” three minutes closer to midnight or, in effect, closer to the “end of humanity.” While this year, the Bulletin focused […]
John Isaacs on Huffington Post Live
Watch John Isaacs give his analysis of Defense Secretary Hagel’s recent $1.5 billion proposal to repair the U.S. nuclear enterprise on HuffPost Live. View the video on HuffPost Live. John Isaacs 202-546-0795 ext. 2222 jdi@armscontrolcenter.org John Isaacs is the Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where his work focuses on national […]
John Isaacs Discusses Missile Defense in Interview with WAFF-TV (AL)
by John Isaacs Watch John Isaacs discuss the shortfalls of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) anti-ballistic missile system in an interview with WAFF-TV, a Huntsville, Alabama station. Huntsville is home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command. Of the GMD, Isaacs says, “Despite many many billions of […]
The Hill Publishes Blog by John Isaacs on the Similarities Between Iraq and Vietnam
Double Reverse With a Twist: Iraq and Vietnam by John Isaacs It happened in Vietnam and it is happening again in Iraq. For a second time. The Vietnam War should have taught us that a large foreign military force can transform a genuine problem into something worse. Yet we repeated that disastrous error in Iraq […]
Analysis of the FY 2014 National Defense Authorization Bill, H.R. 3304
by Kingston Reif, Laicie Heeley, and John Isaacs Senate and House negotiators have agreed on a Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Bill, H.R. 3304, that was negotiated between the two Armed Services Committees. This tactic was chosen after the Senate failed to agree to limit the number of amendments on the Senate floor before the […]